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The challenge of affordable housing for low-income city-dwellers

More than one billion people – one out of seven persons on the planet – are now slum-dwellers. For context, India will overtake China by 2030 and become the world’s most populous country.

The challenge of affordable housing for low-income city dwellers is real.

The challenge of affordable housing for low-income city-dwellers

Housing is a numbers game: The more people there are in any city or town, the greater the need is for housing. The number of people living on the planet is rising every second, as the World Population Clock shows, while the amount of habitable land (what housing specialists call “serviced land”) rem…